skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not inconceivable, however, that the system connects to whatever other dossier(s) have been built against my identity. Even before we consider ML facial recognition by public cameras (probably not yet possible at scale?), the Singaporean SIM card I bought was connected to my passport, which gives them my location: both absolute and relative to anyone I might have spent time around.

Why do they need a dossier on you when the passenger manifest has your exact identity? Or are you talking about them tracking you in the country after you left customs? Given that passport control is already plastered with cameras, and you need to present an identity document containing your face to enter the country, I'm not sure why people feel extra creeped out by an automated passport control gate. If they wanted to track you they already have all they need.
We've onboarded a significant number of folks from Bench onto Kick before this happened, so this may have been why were were mentioned.

Working fast right now to try to provide resources and help Bench users migrate and will be sharing updates here: https://x.co/kickfinance
The US downed and recovered a Chinese balloon, not balloons.

The 2023 incident is pretty well written up on Wikipedia[1].

There was one Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down. Subsequent shoot-downs of balloons over the arctic and Great Lakes were not attributed to China - one that was recovered was definitively identified as a private weather balloon.

There were also previous Chinese surveillance balloon overflights - as well as one over Central America - that were not shot down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
What happened to the American chestnut tree?
If you have problem with Unix time you are probably using it wrong. It is monotonically rising timer that increments every second. That's it. It doesn't care about leap second, leap years or any of the orbits.
> I’m about 95% sure that will be terrible for the vast, vast majority of humans, we'll be obsolete.

This isn't a criticism of you, but this is a very stupid idea that we have. The economy is mean to serve us. If it can't, we need to completely re-organize it because the old model has become invalid. We shouldn't exist to serve the economy. That's an absolutely absurd idea that needs to be killed in every single one of us.
This was known, to greater precision, a century before Julius Caesar:
https://csuitemind.com/quotes/i-have-composed-a-book-on-the-...
Minecraft Jenny model released on blender for free
I have a traumatic experience with GPU-based GUI. Long time ago I tried to run Ubuntu in a VM, and they switched to GPU-based rendering. But as VM doesn't have a GPU, the system fell back to something called "llvmpipe". The result was that the widgets reacted approximately with 30 second lag to every action.

So what I am asking, if you are making a GPU-based rendering toolkit, please write also SIMD software fallback without shaders. Remember how fast Windows 95 was and make it a little bit faster.
I so hope this will start an avalanche and car companies will not be able to get away with collecting so much data about users (cars, but that's pretty close).

Especially in the EU, the hypocrisy is jarring: on one hand, GDPR, protecting users from surveillance by businesses, etc, and on the other hand, car companies get a free pass, because they are car companies, and the EU likes car companies.
So you're planning on offering tax filings, or just recommendations? tbh this should have been included in the notice because I wrote y'all off immediately because taxes was the main pain point Bench solved for me (electing to file as an S-Corp).
EPA Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks
https://archive.is/PnPHo
This is a great fit for Google AppScript.
Are you excluding military weapons from technology? I wonder what kid of extinction are you thinking of, probably climate change but I don't think that possibility will lead to humanity extinction.
yeah but a healthcare professional won't happily give me a cocktail recipe for my diabetes insulin. and if they do, i can sue the shit out of them for malpractice and they won't be able to continue giving life-ending advice to patients.
I think a fundamental part of the reasons that Russia and the West cannot seem to escape a death-march to war is that Russia is so often conflated with the USSR. They are ideologically and politically distinct entities, even as much as some in the current state of Russia might wish for the old days.
I'm pretty sure malnutrition/poverty by far outrank them.
As the author of the repo I was surprised how close to my mental model the graph was. (I haven't worked on this repo in a while so my mental model is a bit fuzzy)

And yeah it seems to be missing a few connections but the ones that are there are correct line.h depends on str.h which links str.c which depends on xmalloc.c/h.

But had I been a new contributor to the project I would have found the missing links between modules pretty frustrating.

My guess is that the graph is only good enough to give and overview of what things are dependent on what if I were working on a monorepo and I had to justify to my manager that team B needs to do something for us.

I like the idea though, a lot of direct code to graph tools are too noisy and that tends scares non technical people away.
I only have to reboot Edge for Android two or three times a day.
The cloud uses a lot of energy. They can use renewable energy but they aren't. No I dodn't ask for AI either. So far it's been just a neat toy but not really useful to me. Maybe you should get outside of your bubble.
I can't find the link now, but there are two ways (I know of) for getting the xdotool way to work. One way is the Durden 'control' socket and a standalone tool 'arcan-cfgfs /path/to/.arcan/appl-out/durden/control /my/mountpoint' that is a FUSE driver. You can mount the desktop as a file system and automate everything like that: echo "typethis" > /my/mountpoint/windows/all/text/input".
Another is to expose that more generally with hookscripts (force-injected Lua scripts that override or add features to the WM you use, arcan -Hhooks/something.lua).
I know, right? Software Engineers with their zeal for determinism. How dare they.
The huge PR headache that continues to hang over Saudi Arabia to this day.

Given their attempts to rebrand into a tourism and entertainment capital, mindshare of "that country and leader who tortured and murdered a journalist" isn't great.

Specifically because not doing it, while a thorn in their side, wouldn't have destabilized the state. They did it because they could and they thought they'd get away with it.
The EU won't do much, because this is a car company. Car companies run the EU, basically, especially German ones.
The further up I get in my career and especially when I fell into consulting in 2020 and more so after Covid lifted, I’ve had to “act like I like people”. I’ve studied how to talk to and deal with people a lot over the past few years. I’m good at it. But it is tiring.

I was also an only child. While I have four friend groups including my cousins I grew up with, there are plenty of times I enjoy just being alone or even sitting alone in a crowd where I don’t have to talk to people.

My wife knows that about me and she can sense when I just need some me time.
People are routinely killed by falling bullets. It turns out that the vast majority of idiots firing blindly into the air don't know or care to shoot only straight up, and it would be the same problem for whichever idiots were trying to shoot down drones.
Yes, even a cursory review of the evidence is pretty clear.
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Crimes are prosecuted by the government.
CARIAD is a 100%-owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen group.
Yep, might be a bit overkill, but as mentioned in other comments, this project was more for fun and learning, less for efficiency :)
LLM yappers are everywhere. One dude with a lot of influence is busy writing blogs on why “prompt engineering” is a “real skill” and engaging in the same banal discourse on every social media platform under the sun. Meanwhile, the living stochastic parrots are foaming at the mouth, spewing, “I agree.”

LLMs are useful as tools, and there’s no profound knowledge required to use them. Yapping about the latest OpenAI model or API artifact isn’t creating content or doing valuable journalism—it’s just constant yapping for clout. I hope this nonsense normalizes quickly and dies down.
Google CEO Pichai struggled to navigate a pressure-filled year
wrong. unix time is discontinuous around leap seconds.

If you think you have no problems with unix time, it's because you never noticed them.

TAI is what you want.
"Successful" seems a rather generous description. If an apartment building is built on quicksand and collapses overnight, are the people who bought apartments the ones to blame?
They probably could measure summer solstices, and count the days between 4 of them, and they got 1461. They could've measured 1461 days -43 minutes, and be more precise, if they had wanted. Julius Caesar was as short-sighted as most software developers today, and he was only planning for like 40 years (that's already more than 7 hours off) but not much more.
Will Arch auto migrate the Aur package for me, or should I uninstall and install from the repo.
I think LLMs operate in a similar way to some of the important parts of human congnition.

I believe they operate in a way that makes them at least somewhat useful for some things. But I think the big issue is trustworthiness. Humans - at least some of them - are more trustworthy than LLM-style AIs (at least current ones). LLMs need progress on trustworthiness more than they need progress on use in other areas.
Freebasing: The AI First Amendment
More like automated ticketing for speeding.
I am not sure exactly how the tech in question was developed, but it seems to me a more serious approach is to use estimates from the patient’s same gendered relatives, such as their grandparents or parents. Applying average distributions to specific individuals doesn’t work for huge swaths of patients for specialized cases like aging and cancer, which is why these areas are difficult to diagnose, predict and treat.
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Well within the constraints they set out which exclude a hell of a lot of European companies.

(I am in Europe for reference, this is not an external perspective)
And I'm skeptical that it is. Happy Friday.
I've seen it where development happens under one Customer, then a few years later they get some bad management and flounder, then a new Customer team (or teams) has pretty much the same mission. It's nice to be able to carry what you've already done with you vs starting over.

The Defense Sector is very much like the private sector in that it has hundreds of companies/teams doing pretty much the same thing.
Is Kick owned by, affiliated with, or invested in by Bench in any way?

Also are any of the C-Level execs from Bench involved in Kick in any way?
ChatGPT seems to be good about this. If you invent something and ask about it, like "What was the No More Clowning Act of 2025?", it will say it can't find any information on it.

The older or smaller models, like anything you can run locally, are probably far more likely to just invent some bullshit.

That said, I've certainly asked ChatGPT about things that definitely have a correct answer and had it give me incorrect information.

When talking about hallucinating, I do think we need to differentiate between "what you asked about exists and has a correct answer, but the AI got it wrong" and "What you're asking for does not exist or does not have an answer, but the AI just generated some bullshit".
At the end of the day, we're machines, too. I wrote a piece a few months ago with an intentionally provocative title, questioning whether we're truly on a different cognitive level.

https://acjay.com/2024/09/09/llms-think/
> too many people are pulled into that bubble and become convinced it represents reality

I don't think you're describing any particular political phenomenon though. We saw the same thing happen in 2016 and 2020 overnight - people go from Facebook pundits to sheepish and sore losers in just 12 hours. Bots certainly play a role in all this, but I think you're wrong to blame them as the deus-ex-machina when human behavior explains it all just fine.

Support bases are real for Luigi Mangione and Harris in the same way it's real for MAGA and Elon. People are truly sucked into the cult of personality because it's big, and they don't understand how to contextualize politics outside of celebrity. In a world where people virtue-signal on their favorite politically-aligned platform, it's not hard at all to imagine the majority of this support being entirely genuine.

A lot of people thought the "Stop the Steal" folks were bots, until they showed up and rioted and subsequently hid their identities out of fear that they'd be lambasted for supporting an anti-populist movement. In a post-Jan 6th world I don't quite understand how you can still blame bots for stupid opinions that real people clearly hold.
I'm not convinced AI is as hamstrung as people seem to think. If you have a minute, I'd like to update my list of things they can't do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523273
https://archive.ph/9oqkn
I see your point! I also wouldn't see ChatGpt as the ultimate source of language learning. I just occasionally used it to generate some words for me, and I found it helpful, so I just automated that. I like the idea of getting something out of transcripts, that would make it more realistic and practical!
Sadly when the United States Coast Guard reports being followed by unknown drones (and unknown drones have been reported around military space by military personnel for years) and the government response is to say 'we don't know, and we are doing nothing' people tend to become concerned. The best way to stop vigilanties is to have a system of laws and and government that follows the laws and that instill trust in the people. When the government just shrugs, well... that's how you end up with horrible/idiotic vigilanytism.

I'm a government institutions guy, but yes, let's attack people for... following basic human nature, not the government big brains that ignore basic realities of human nature about needing trust in stable/steady government institutions who instead just demand 'faith in government' that isn't earned. The government isn't just failing in actions, they are failing in understanding this BASIC requirement for governing.
I really appreciate that Arcan picked up a pretty big ambition to be networked. Linux on the Desktop is an antiquated goal at this point; software today is cloud connected & works across systems, and that's the baseline we need to be targetting.

Pretty good post from 2023 on Arcane & their "A12" networking

https://arcan-fe.com/2023/11/18/a12-visions-of-the-fully-net...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun
He's referring to specific uses of technology as in AI, not the summary headline The Grauniad used. That my nature excludes 99.99% of everything that goes boom at the moment.
think more deeply . who benefits with super intelligence ? at the end it is game of what humans desire naturally. AI has no incentive and are not controlled by hormones.
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That’s been solved. Most modern implementations of Unix Time are 64 bit.
So is your argument that we need to cut back on air travel first?

Or that we need to cut back on air travel while also reducing CO2 emissions from data centers, with more emphasis on cutting back on air travel?
I was just sold bench.co for my three businesses and the sales person Luc Lewarne made me sign a payment agreement with Capchase. The agreement states that I still owe Capchase the full amount for a year, even if Bench.co shuts down...

Does anyone have any contacts or experience with Capchase? I never even started my service, which was supposed to begin January 1st, 2025 and now I will have to pay out 12 months to Capchase?!?!
I initially imagined a script that would send an email generated by an LLM that you could reply to in the target language. Basically, an LLM pen pal that will email you regularly. Seems like a fun idea.
Might just be me, but I also read in a condescending tone to these types of responses akin to “let me google that for you”
Greater totality of experiences than having read the whole internet? Obviously they are very different kind of experiences, but a greater totality? I'm not so sure.

Here is what we know: The Pile web scrape is 800GB. 20 years of human experience at 1kB/sec is 600GB. Maybe 1kB/sec is bad estimate. Maybe sensory input is more valuable than written text. You can convince me. But next challenge, some 10^15 seconds of currently existing youtube video, that's 2 million years of audiovisual experience, or 10^9GB at the same 1kB/sec.
Why not if all patients were evacuated long ago and the hospital was used by Syrian "rebels"?
So use Galileo's OSNMA instead. That'll work until they spend $100 on a jammer.
https://archive.ph/GZhvw
I think that's spot on. It's not about writing perfect software for learning a language. It's just a little extra to keep you engaged and reminded!!
They should just solve the problem in the traditional way that international disputes have been settled, and have the most heavily armed member of the committee kill everyone that disagrees with them.
The title of this post should be "PQConnect", or "PQConnect:
Automated Post-Quantum End-to-End Tunnels" (from the paper). The editorialized title here now stiffs the guy who actually wrote the software.

This looks like basically a McEliece/SNTRUP version of Colin Percival's spiped.
The fact that you have passed audits isn't a guarantee (or even an indication) that you don't have major security vulnerabilities.
Critic, not whistleblower
Google shields the false-DMCA complainers and will absolutely not reveal their identities.
I did a similar project previously and had what I considered "good" results (creatures that did effectively control their bodies to get food) but not the kind of advanced brains I had naively hoped for.

The networks were really configurable (number of layers, number of "sections" within a layer (section=semi-independent chunk), number of neurons, synapses, types of neurons, type of synapses, amount of recurrence, etc.), but I tended to steer the GA stuff in directions that I saw tended to work, these were some of my findings:

1-Feed forward tended to work better than heavily recurrent. Many times I would see a little recurrence in the best brains, but that might have been because due to percentages it was difficult to get a brain that didn't have any of it.

2-The best brains tended to have between 6 and 10 layers, and the middle layers tended to be small like information was being consolidated before fanning out to the motor control neurons.

3-Activation functions: I let it randomly choose per neuron or per section of layer, or per layer or per brain, etc. I was surprised that binary step frequently won out compared to things like sigmoid or others.
You're not supposed to do that in links on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Also an neuron in ml is just a weighted value, a biological neuron does much more than that. For example neurons communicate using neuro transmitters as well as using voltage potentials. The actual date rate of biological neurons is therfore much higher and complex.

The conclusion does not follow from the premise. The observed maximum rate of the inter-neuron communication is important, the mechanism is not.

> Also you cannot compare neuron firing rates with clockspeed. Afaik each neuron in a ml-model can have code that takes several clock cycles to complete.

Depends how you're doing it.

Jupyter notebook? Python in general? Sure.

A100s etc., not so much — those are specialist systems designed for this task:

"""1024 dense FP16/FP32 FMA operations per clock""" - https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/en-zz/Solutions/data-cente...

"FMA" meaning "fused multiply-add". It's the unit that matters for synapse-equivalents.

(Even that doesn't mean they're perfect fits: IMO a "perfect fit" would likely be using transistors as analog rather than digital elements, and then you get to run them at the native transistor speed of ~100 GHz or so and don't worry too much about how many bits you need to represent the now-analog weights and biases, but that's one of those things which is easy to say from a comfortable armchair and very hard to turn into silicon).

> Basically your analogy is false because your napkin-math basically forgets that the rat is an actual biological rat and not something as neatly defined as a computer chip

Any of those biological functions that don't correspond to intelligence, make the comparison more extreme in favour of the computer.

This is, after all, a question of their mere intelligence, not how well LLMs (or indeed any AI) do or don't function as von Neumann replicators, which is where things like "procreate, eat, do things and fend for and maintain itself" would actually matter.
Why wouldn't you want it, unless you are currently benefiting from employing people who would rather be doing literally anything else?
To be clear, in practice I think some organizational cultures just aggressively embrace this idea to the point of it being detrimental. I've heard statements with those exact words coming from executives, and I've seen people sort of squashed by executives in town hall-type forums for raising a problem without offering a solution.

(In the line that you quoted, by the way, I just changed "and" to "with" for clarity.)
Me too, and signed with Capchase. What are you looking to do? I'm trying to find someone at capchase, but not finding anyone...
Back in the day, during the original Browser Wars, when the US Department Of Justice was trying to force Microsoft to detach Internet Explorer from Windows, Microsoft argued that it was impossible for Windows to operate without IE baked in. Well, it took a couple of "hackers" about a day to prove them wrong. I ran Windows XP without IE for years just fine. So yeah, cars can run without the app.
Internet "influencers" really have us convinced that humans were barbaric apes until a century or two ago and then suddenly invented the modern world. What about all the achievements before then? Could we not have used math and science a few thousand years ago? Nope, it was all aliens of course.
There's an alternative to making money, which is stealing it. Just like some birds steal other birds' nests (presumably because they're unhappy that someone has amassed a larger collection of twigs).
Your point was clear to me, we can say that at the individual*n (n>=1) level of effort is comparable.
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EVs are topping the list of (imho) useless extras in cars. I'm still cherishing my Honda Fit pre-touchscreen edition. I'm going to drive it until it will fall apart.
My next car will be an EV but I have yet to find one that still comes with mechanical features (door handles, knobs/buttons), without a whole battery of surveillance/telemetry tech and (crossing fingers) exchangable batteries. Simple electric propulsion ...
Who likes to learn a niche scripting language that only works on one platform?
That person on the reddit example is as caustic as can be. Perfect example of a nightmare open source user.
Or perhaps because it would lead to a ton of harassment as per usual.
Unfortunately, that isn't true.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/leap-second-glitch-explained/ https://developers.google.com/time/smear
I expect Pichai will be replaced by Hassabis in less than a year.
Imagine having to work for money at Automatic, trying to find the motivation to get through the day while your CEO behaves like this.

Whatever you find inside yourself to motivate yourself to do the current task at hand, please teach me how to reach it. I admire you.